No. The bathrooms were segregated but Katherine used the white restroom. No one cared as everyone was so focused on meeting the deadlines of the space race

That bit was so flipping stupid and totally out of place in what was otherwise an excellent movie.

Exactly. To juxtaposed the on-going civil rights fight with her bold moves would have made a far better message than their blatant white guilt/absolution scene. The fact that NASA had a ROOM full of black women who were bad-ass mathematicians already said that NASA was ahead of the curve.

The real story behind that is actually better in my opinion. She actually was using the “white” restrooms anyways, and only later did someone complain about it. They brought it up to her and she ignored it and went about her way without giving it a second thought. I think the real life version makes her sound much…

Very much so. I had a good laugh at Costner’s character tearing down the colored bathroom sign. I’m like, really, that’s overdramatic.

I just saw it too! I fully cried when they showed the actual people at the end.

This is well earned. My cousin works at NASA Houston and said that this was the source of huge applause in the annals of a huge agency.

She is an amazing woman but the movie plays very loosely with the true story and the work of multiple individuals were combined into the lead characters. It makes sense for dramatic purposes though

This awesome news but what gets me why did it take decades and a movie about this woman before NASA or whomever decides these kind of things to finally do it?

I am so glad she lived to see this. How delightful. Thank you for a good piece of news.

Just saw this movie over the weekend. I was floored. She seems to down play this honor but I think she earned every brick used to make it.

It bothers me a lot more lately when I see American Nazi Charles Lindbergh’s name. Like, I used to think “well, he supported Nazis before they knew about the Holocaust, maybe that would have changed his mind,” but lately I think “dammit, Nazis are always going to be popular in America, fuck that guy.”

Well deserved and so glad she actually got to see it.

Is Weiner TRYING to be the worst person in the world? I still think his dick played a huge part in getting Trump elected(after he supposedly had copies of Hiliary’s missing e-mails), and now this on top of all his other sex related issues? I think we may have actually found a white man no one will redeem.

I’m trying to decide how much of my “lock him up and throw away the key” reaction is based on what a gross pig monkey predatory piece of shite he is and how much is based on my anger over his fucking up the election.

Ah yes, the teenage seductress who made it impossible for poor Weiner to do anything other than ask her to strip for him. Poor little guy....

Not only does Leah Remini have no reason to lie about this but Will and Jada literally had a Scientology based school. You don’t do that if you’re just dabbling.

She used the term “study tech.” Cult jargon.

Um...I’m an agnostic/atheistish kinda person and I think most religions sound a little nutty when you really think about what its followers believe (virgin birth, son of god being basically a zombie, etc.)...but the fact that she put Scientology in the list with those others is all the confirmation I need that she’s…

1. Leah Remini’s show about Scientology is amazing. Watch it.